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Pontefract Museum

Pontefract Museum is a local museum in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. The collections cover archaeology, archives, decorative and applied art, fine art, photographs and social history. [1]

  1. ^ Information from Wakefield.gov.uk Archived 2009-05-28 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 16 December 2009.

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